January happenings

Baylor loves balls!!! loves them!!! I have never seen him get to excited and he just squeals so loud and gets tense and smiles so big whenever we get out Dean's basketball. It makes me laugh and I hope it's a sign that he will enjoy sports because in this family we love to play with balls!
Baylor also likes to "give mama kisses" big ole wet ones! and I love them too!

give mama kisses

"lala lo lala lo oh my little star sweeper" 

(from Lady and the Tramp)

giggle time during bath time

getting ready to go to grandmas house

Since getting out of school and Dean's IFA schedule we can actually have a more consistent date nights so every weekend we try to squeeze in some time alone and while we were in cache valley we went to play racquetball and lift some weights at the Smithfield rec. center cuz we had 2 free passes. Shalese and her friend came along too it was fun and of course Dean won a game or two. I can't lie I do love being married to him and his athletic body :)

look at that form shalese

I'm not sure what dean was doing here but i love his face

and my baby sister chewing up a ball

1/16/14---Baylor 7 months

Our Baylor man at 7 months:

*said his first word

*wears 12-18 month clothes

*crawls backwards (more like

scoots backwards)

*loves balls and balloons

*loves to bath with Mya-giggles

the whole time

*has bright blue eyes and

long eyelashes 

*already a ladies man-2

young women fight over

him during sacrament meeting 

*is starting to copy and mimic 

….and he still spits up….

Baylor's first word….."Da Da"-1/25/14

We made a visit to Richmond and Franklin for Boone's 22nd bday. On saturday we were in Franklin and I picked Baylor up off the floor and over my shoulder he could see Dean and he said, "da da" he didn't babble or anything and looked straight at Dean! I thought for sure he would say mama first since he is such a mama's boy and I have been practicing with him too, but oh well

the first thing the nurse said when he was born was, "look at those eyelashes!" and people still comment on them. he is one lucky boy

"mom you're so cute"

Mya hopped in bed with me after her and dad ate breakfast (some mornings I'm too tired to join them) and after dad left we both just laid there together quietly while Baylor was asleep in the other room, then Mya takes her thumb out of her mouth and caresses my cheek with her soft little hand and says, "mom you're so cute"---I smiled and thought how blessed I was to have her and for her to boost my self esteem cuz everybody knows that children are the most honest creatures!

Mya our little pirate

Mya has exotropia (sp?) in her left eye-it drifts to the outside basically its kind of lazy-doctors have kept an eye on it since she was 3 months old and its not correcting itself so she has to have a patch on her good eye for 2 hours a day for 2 months then they will check her again. It is supposed to make her drifting eye focus and work harder. Dean put it on her when he got home and he was so sweet, he put it on then cupped her face and told her how beautiful she was and gave her a kiss on the cheek. Dean is a wonderful father and I think that Mya is so blessed to have him and I hope they always have a good relationship.

our little pirate---aarghh!

FHE- we sang songs and talked about how and why we fold our arms when we pray

Dean makin noises with his mouth I caught it in action! haha

Temple Square Lights and the Trax

The friday after Christmas we (our neighbors the Peterson's and the keegly's) decided to ride the front runner to Salt Lake and see the temple lights. I really liked the train and Mya thought it was pretty fun too. We had a good time laughing and visiting and the girls loved climbing up and down the seats :) On our way there Baylor had a blow out diaper and i changed him but didn't have a bag to put the diaper in and my diaper bag was chuck full and there weren't any garbages on the train that I could see so I set it next to my seat and bag thinking I will just grab it and when we get off I will throw it away but of course with my brain I forgot it! I didn't remember until we were riding the train back to Provo. I felt so bad but everyone else just laughed.

Holly, Vivi, and Mya

Kiki and John Keegly and their adopted granddaughter Vivi-They are the sweetest people ever and they are from Oklahoma and John makes the best southern food, we tried his jumbalia (spelling?) and it's amazing! they gave us the seasoning and the recipe for Christmas, that was one of Dean's favorite gifts. In the back is Neil and Mandy Peterson (who is hiding behind John) we always have some good laughs with them. I play volleyball with Mandy. their girls are Taylor (in the stroller) and Holly and she is holding their boy just younger than Baylor, Linden.

Baylor asleep with the blanket over him so he stays warm:)

Mya LOVES the fountains-she still talks about them

The girls!

I like this pic for 2 reasons: 1-Baylor didn't cry the whole trip and basically was asleep for most of it until Dean gets the camera out and he starts fussin. :) and 2-Vivi is playing school with the girls and using a poster for their class, the poster is of a safe place for women to drop off their babies if they don't want them. I'm just glad they were too young to understand the poster.

I love temple square and I would love to take the train again when its warm and go do a session at the temple where Dean and I were sealed.

Baby buns

I could just squeeze these cute dimpled buns!

what a big boy standing on his own!